OPIKI.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) OPIKI, July 23. Mredanies I>. G. Yule, G. Larsen, J. -A. Cookslcy, XV. Irwin. J. D. Aitehison. B. A. Norman, P. JL Krivan, K. Bond, J. Mabuy, and Alices C. Cooksley, L. Larsen and J. jVJabev attended the Manawhenua group rally of Women’s Institutes at Shannon on Thursday. AJembers of the Opiki Institute team comprising Mctsdamcs Yule and AJnbey and AJisses Leone Larsen and Joan Ala bey, presented a story without words, “The New Chum on the Farm,” and were highly commended by the judge, Airs Linda Bennett, of Palmerston North.
7a r-oiiin 1011 with other parts of 1 1)0 district Opiki experienced a snow fall on Wednesday night, residents waking up to the. raru right of the surrounding countryside covered with powdery snow. Children delighted ,in 'the occurrence and, although there was hardly enough snow to build snow men, snow balling was in progress until about 10 o’clock, when it began to melt away. The Tararua and Uttabine Ranges were a magnificent spectacle, being coated down to the foothills.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1939, Page 12
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175OPIKI. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1939, Page 12
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